*to TRAVELS TO DISCOVER.. 



Tire other port is the * Eunodus of the ancients, and is to 

 the weiiward of the Pharos, It was called alfo the Port of 

 Africa ; is much larger than the former, and lies immedi- 

 ately under part of the town of Alexandria. It has much 

 deeper water, though a multitude of mips have every day, 

 for ages, been throwing a quantity of ballaft into it ; and 

 there is no doubt, but in time it will be filled up, and join- 

 ed to the continent by this means. And poflerity may, pro- 

 bably, following the fyftem of Herodotus (if it mould be Itili 

 fafhionable) call this as they have done the reil of Egypt, 

 the Gift of the Nile. 



Christian veiTels* are not fuffered to enter this port ; the 

 only reafon is, lealt the Moori/b 'women mould be feen taking 

 the air in the evening at open windows ; and this has been 

 thought to be of weight enough for Chrillian powers to 

 fubmit to it,, and to over-balance the conilant lofs of ihips a 

 property, and men, 



f Alexander, returning to Egypt from the Libyan fide, 

 was ftruck with the beauty and fituation of thefe two ports, 

 % Dinochares, an architect who accompanied, him, traced- 

 out the plan, and Ptolemy I. built the city, . 



The healthy, though defolate and bare country round it, 

 part of the Defert of Libya,. was another inducement to pre- 

 fer this fituation to the unwholefome black mud of Egypt; 

 but it had no water j this Ptolemy was obliged to bring far 



above 



* Strabo, lib. xvii. p. 922. f Strabo, lib. xvii. p. 920. CLCurt. lib. iv. cap. 8. 



^PUn.lib. v. cap. 10. p. 273. 



